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Religious Leader Medieval Europe

Hildegard of Bingen

1098-1179 CE

The Sybil of the Rhine, mystic, abbess, composer, healer, and voice of the Living Light.

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What is viriditas and how do I cultivate it in my own life
How do you see the relationship between the body, the soul, and health
What role can music and creativity play in spiritual practice

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Contemplative Practice: Weaving prayer, study, and creativity
Community Formation: Shaping culture through ritual and song

Biography

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Hildegard of Bingen was born in 1098 in the Rhineland, the tenth child of a noble family. At eight, she was given to the Church, enclosed with an anchoress named Jutta in a cell attached to a Benedictine monastery. There she learned Latin, Scripture, and the psalms; there she also continued to experience the visions that had come to her since she was five, though she kept them secret, confiding only in Jutta and later in the monk Volmar, who would become her secretary. When Jutta died in 1136, Hildegard was elected to lead the growing community of nuns. But it was not until 1141, when she was forty-two, that the Living Light commanded her to write down what she had seen. The result was Scivias: 'Know the Ways', twenty-six visions with elaborate theological commentary, dictated over a decade to Volmar and illuminated with stunning images.

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